Final Essay
- September 20, 2024/
Question/Prompt:
Your task is: 1) to read Ch. 12 and the two articles, and 2) answer the following questions/prompt – this is an essay and not a short-answers exam:
- Assess the powerful impact of non-state actors (piracy, terrorism, and technology and privatization) have on the global system of states.
- Looking more attentively at terrorism, what is John Gray’s argument regarding the West’s war on terrorism. Can the war be won?
- Finally, looking at Richard K. Betts’ reviews, when (e.g., post Cold War, post 9/11, or 21st century?) does Fukuyama, Huntington, and Mearsheimer’s visions rang truest?